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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950
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THIS PROPOSAL DESERVES SUPPORT
The offer made by the new group of bankers to purchase
the common stock of the P.P. & L. Co., as reported in yester
day's news, is a straight-up, clean business proposal. Com
pared with it the Myers transaction which will come before
the securities and exchange commission next week is murky
and messy. The new offer is to pay 1 15,000,000 in cash if the
bKU turns the Myers plan down and $1,000,000 has been
posted.
Look now at the Myers deal and what Myers plans to make
out of it. There would be $10,000,000 paid down and there
would be no commission on it. Then, as the Oregon Journal
outlined the figures last week, "on the next $13,600,000
American (the holding company) would get 70 per cent, the
syndicate 20 per cent and Myers 10 per cent or $1,400,000.
He would also get 19 per cent on the next $3,900,000, over
and above the amounts in which American would share, or
$741,000, and 10 per cent on any amounts above the foregoing
bracket."
"Thus," the Journal continues "Myers is playing for more
han $2,000,000 in commissions on the proposed deal."
Where would all the money come from to pay the syndicate
its 20 per cent and Myers his 10 and then 19 per cent? From
he public through liquidation of the company by sales of
property or common stock. As well as we can get a total out
of the mess of figures it looks as though the over-all take
would be in excess of $20,000,000. And what would be the
result, particularly if the company's property were dismem
bered and a part sold here and another there? Only confusion
and an end to the coordinated, integrated service now enjoyed.
We said here, when this Myers deal was first announced,
that all he and his banker associates were interested in was
commissions. Definitely they are not concerned with service
. and sound financing. It is hardly believable that the SEC Will
approve this proposal.
On the other hand the new group plans to keep the P.P. & L.
Co. alive and, of course, with the present management at the
helm.
Various groups and individuals interested only in progress
and the sound development of the region have already ex
pressed to the SEC their adverse opinion of the Myers pro
posal. Now they can move from the negative to the affirma
tive and support the proposal announced yesterday.
SHAW VERSUS LARYNGITIS
Are you troubled by laryngitis? Here is George Bernard
Shaw's prescription for prevention. If you try it and it works
please let us know. -
Every night when you are going to bed, fill a tumbler
with warm water and drop in u pinch of salt; just enough to
be tasted.
Dip your nose into this and snulf up half a mouthful or
so through your nostrils and spit it out. Do this three times.
Then gargle twice.
And if you smoke, give it up.
This Is what the British Broadcasting Company announc
ers do. . .
I do it myself and never have laryngitis.
While the United States is getting out of China Soviet
Russia is getting out, too. Getting out all it can.
U. S. Developing
New Weapons ;
Washington, Jan. 18 UP The
senate armed services committee
has been informed that spectacu
lar new U.S. weapons, Including
self aiming anti aircraft guns,
have been developed which may
prove an almost impenetrable de
fense against supersonic planes.
The Information was Included
In a report to his committee col
leagues by Sen. Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., R, Mass., a world war
II combat officer and now a mem
ber of the army reserve.
His conclusions were based on
his recent tour of duly at the
Fort Bliss, Tex., anti-aircraft and
guided missiles center.
He said guided missile develop
ments would make military oper
ations like the Normandy inva
sion Impossible in the future. He
underscored the necessity of do
ing "everything we can" to hold
western Europe because It might
be Impossible to wrest it back
from an occupying enemy.
There Is a "strong feeling" In
military circles, he added, that
Russia is lagging behind the
United States in guided missiles.
But he cautioned that there is no
"precise, fractural basis for this
feeling."
He did not maintain that the
nation is absolutely secure
against air attack but he said It
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POLIO POSTER KIDDIES CO ON TOUR Wanda Wiley of Austin, Tex, right above, poster
girl for the 1930 March of Dimes, and Linda Iris Brown, left above, the poster girl in 1949, are
among five children who will tour seven Eastern cities this month on behalf of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Their tour is In connection with the 1950 March of Dimes drive,
Jan. 16-31. , Other children to make the tour are: Donald Anderson, 9, of Warm Springs, Ore, the ,
first polio poster boy In 1946; Nancy Drury, 7, of Louisville, Ky, 1947 poster girl, and Terry Tullos,
5, of Laurel, Miss, 1948 poster boy.
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100th Anniversary
Banquet Planned
AFL union members of central
Oregon next February 15 will
join In observance of the 100th
birthday anniversary of the late
Samuel Gompers, founder of the
union, at a banquet-mectiilg to
be held In the Pilot Butte inn,
Clarence E, Briggs, executive sec
retary of the AFL Central Ore
gon district council, announced
today.
Principal speakers for the occa
sion will be Rev. Thomas Tobin
of Portland, who is noted for his
work in the field of labor-management
relations, and Charles
Smith, also of Portland, who Is
Oregon representative of AFL
president, William Green.
STUDENTS TO WKI)
Madras, Jan. 18 --An an
nouncement of the mother of the
prospective bride, Mrs. Nellie
Watts, Jefferson county clerk, re
veals plans for the wedding dur
ing the coming summer vacation
of two popular students at Ore
gon btate college. Miss Caryl Ann
Watts and Bob Drain, son of Mrs.
Harold Tompkins, a Metollus
matron. Miss Watts Is a gradu
ate of the Madras union high
school.
, By Peter Edson
(NBA WaHhinKton Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) President
Truman's economic report spells
out a five-year plan tor the United
States. The state of the union
message was more on the order
of a 50-year plan, looking ahead
to the year ZUUU Anno Democrat
ica. It was written in broad gen
eralities. But this economic report
is concerned principally with 1950
1954, Inclusive, and it is full of
specific though controversial proposals.
The keynote of this economic
report seems to be in the presi
dent's statement, "... economic
affairs are not beyond human con
trol." Opponents of the Truman
administration and philosophy
may see in this phrase the old
bogey of "government planning"
rearing Its head again.
The president builds up his
theme by statements that many
of his critics will dispute. In his
state of the union message the
president said that, "Government
programs for maintaining em
ployment and purchasingi power
have been of tremendous benefit"
In meeting and reversing the re
cession of 19-19.
The president repeats this idea
In his economic report. He says:
"The relatively safe passage from
Inflation to greater stability was
no accident, Business, workers
and farmers demonstrated much
greater judgment and restraint
than in earlier similar periods. . . .
Government measures In such
fields as credit and banking, so
cial Insurance and ' agricultural
price supports proved their worth
In cushioning the downswing and
lending strong support to the re
covery movement."
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This may he true. But it will
also be recalled that in-1918 and
early in 19-19 President Truman
asked for many stand by ration
ing, wage; price and credit con
trols which congress refused.
In order words, the business re
covery and the decrease in unem
ployment in the fall of 1919 were
made without benefit of these
government controls. Government
economists may argue that the de
gree of recession would have been
less If congress had granted the
president these additional powers.
But that Is debatable.
But it is to cut unemployment
to 2.000,000. to secure full employ
ment for 01.000,000 workers aiid
to get the must out of U. S. pro
duction that the president advanc
es his five-year program. Its goal
has been stated before. It is to
achieve an annual gross national
product of $300,000,000,000 in
goods and services by 1954. The
present level is $255,000,000,000.
That means an increase of $9,000,,
000,000 a year for the next five
years.
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What is new in the president's
economic report is an indication
that he will encourage more gov
ernment assistance to business.
This Is apparently to be done In
the forthcoming messages on tax
revision, anti-trust law revision,
encouragement of private loahs to
small business and guarantees on
private investment in foreign
countries.
These proposals may make an
Important change in administra
tion policy when they are all spell
ed out. But they do not necessar
ily mean any softening in the at
titude towards business. There is
another possible explanation to be
considered.
The business recession of 1949
cut down the federal govern
ment's tax receipts by about $4,
000,000,000. That may have awalo
ened the' government to the fao)
that to carry out Its welfare ana
social security programs, it must
havo plenty of money rolling intd
the federal treasury. i
It Is to the Truman admlnlstrar
tlon's interest, therefore, to be
everything it can to promote full
employment and high industrial
production. They will insure high
level national income. And thf
higher the income, the greater the
tax collections to carry out the
fair deal programs.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Files I
TIHKTY YEARS AGO
(Jan. 18, 1920)
Plans for the erection in Bend
of two stone garages has been
announced. One of the buildings
will be constructed by L. L. Fox
and will more than cover the
ground now occupied by the Pio
neer Garage Co.
Madras defeated Bend 28 to 23
here last night In a high school
basketball game. Coyner and
Lochr held down the forward po
sitions for the Bend team, with
Brosterhous at center and Hauck
and Helfrich In the guard berths.
Shevlln-Hixon employes have
organized a hand, with J. D. Gra
ham as leader.
Postal receipts for the Decem
ber quarter amounted to $5,637,
W. II, Hudson, acting postmaster,
has announced.
Is difficult to see how one could
succeed where the new weapons
are available. Ho said that applies
to supersonic as well as more
conventional planes.
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Out on the Farm
By Ila S. Grant
Jan. 18 Getting into town
these days is almost as exciting
as an expedition to the North
Pole. It's not unusual to slide off
the road into a snowbank and
have to dig out.
This would be a good day to
stay inside and spend the day
baking or trying the hand at
some kind of creative art. If
there's an old piece of furniture
in the attic or in the basement,
it would be fun to decorate it with
"folk art," which is almost as
popular these days as Rita Hay
worth's baby, to borrow a funny
I heard on the radio.
The basic principle of folk art
is simplicity, with fruits, flowers,
hearts, figures and geometric bor
ders made free-hand, using short
strokes of a small brush. Paint
stores have booklets that tell
about the technique, by the way.
Proportion is disregarded utter
ly, and the finished design may
consist of something like fish,
bunches of grapes and little colon
ial figures, all the same size. It
sounds terrible but really is very
effective.
I have a little desk that's going
to get "folk arted" just as soon as
I can find the time. The present
enamel will have to be taken off
with paint remover, which works
like magic. After a little sand
papering, the piece will be ready
to reflnish.
Today, I'm planning to do the
desk in dark green and white,
with multi-colored designs. To
morrow, I may decide on Chinese
red and delft bine. Or Chartreuse
and mauve. There are endless
possibilities, of course. If I fol
low my present plan, I'll use
white for the drawer front and
the outside of the slantine panel
that forms the writing table The
drawer pulls and the rest of the
desk will be green. The designs
will be done on the white sur
faces. I think. I'll have a bird
with a letter in its mouth in the
center, an inkwell and ouill at one
side, and hearts and flowers on
the other. Do you follow me? It
tells a story. Man writes lady
love: air-mail letter Is delivered;
happy ending. Then across te
bottom of this masterpiece I'll
oalnt in mv own handwriting e
quotation such as: "Do right and
fear no man; don't write and fear
no woman."
START
1950
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Socialized Medicine Here
ToSfay,in Great Britain
Bv GeraJdine Hill
(United Preu Suit Correspondent)
London, Jan. 18 tlPi Socialized
medicine has come to Britain to
stay.
Enacted by the labor govern
ment in 1948, it will remain on
the statute books regardless of
the outcome of the general elec
tion next month.
Even doctors who prefer free
enterprise in medicine have given
up their fight to repeal it. And
Winston Churchill's conserva
tives, who know a popular law
when they see it, say flatly in
their election handbook:
"It can never be too often
stated that the conservative party
is wholeheartedly in favor of a
national health service available
to all."
The conservatives concede that
a party which opposes free medi
cal and hospital care for all
would have little chance at the
British polls, even though 'the
public ultimately pays the huge
bill through heavy taxes.
The only questions remaining
are how socialized medicine shall
be administered, and how much
private practice shall survive.
The British medical profession
as a whole, under leadership of
the British Medical association,
abandoned organized opposition
to the labor government's nation
al health service in the summer
of 1948.
But a core of medical diehards
remained. They acknowledged
repeal of the health service plan,
but they began a campaign to
correct its "abuses" under the
banner of "The Fellowship for
Freedom of Medicine."
Heading the fellowship is 79-year-old
Lord Horder, King
George's physician. Under his
leadership, the fellowship has
drawn up 10 amendments for
presentation to parliament.
"We are not against a health
plan," Horder said, "but we are
against this one in its present
form. We hope the abuses in
(Health minister) Aneurin Bev
an's scheme will be rectified with
the help of our amendpients."
He said the amendments are
designed to preserve private prac
tice on a broad basis as an al
ternative to complete state con
trol of medicine.
"The most important , amend
ment is that every Briton should
be given the choice of either re
maining In the national health
service or leaving altogether and
receiving a refund from the state,
according to the cost of the serv
ice at that particular time," Hor
der said.
"If a Briton remains in the
scheme but wishes to occupy a
private bed in a hospital or nurs
ing home, he should receive a
government grant toward the
cost, based on the statistical cost
of a bed in a public ward. He
should be allowed free drugs and
certain agreed appliances."
that they could not hope to get Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results
Irene Taylor
Will Speak Here
Irene Taylor, director of the
speaker's bureau of the Portland
citizen's committee to study the
Hoover report, will be in Bend
for a series of speaking engage
ments Wednesday, January 25.
Announcement was made at the
weekly meeting of Bend's com
mittee for "Operation Economy"
Monday evening at the Trailways
Coffee shop.
In Bend Miss Taylor will ad
dress junior chamber of com
merce and Rotary club members
at a joint luncheon session. At
4 p.m. she will appear before the
Bend Education association at the
high school.
The Portland guest will round
out a busy day in Bend with ap
pearances on radio station KBND
at 7 p.m., and as guest of honor
at the evening dinner' meeting of
the Bend Business and Profes
sional Women's club. Miss Taylor
is an active member of the Port
land BPW club.
JAYWALKING EXPENSIVE
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 18 U To
pefta pedestrians who cross in
tersections on amber or red lights
will, from now on, be risking their
pocketbooks as well as their lives.
The city commission yesterday
enacted an ordinance permitting
pedestrians to be fined Up to $100
for using intersectional cross
walks when the green light is not
shining.
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